Fiche du document
1 juin 2018
- handle: 10670/1.ehlpde
- hal: hal-02008976
info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess
Mots-clés
clefts focus subject Otomi Oto-MangueanSujets proches
Papers Case Construction Architectural engineering Construction Buildings--Design and construction Engineering, Architectural Western architecture (Western countries) Building design Construction Buildings--Design and construction Architecture, Western (Western countries)Citer ce document
Enrique L Palancar, « Subjects and focus in clefts: The case of Tilapa Otomi », HAL-SHS : linguistique, ID : 10670/1.ehlpde
Métriques
Partage / Export
Résumé
This paper is an exploration of the syntax-pragmatics interface in the pseudo-clefts of Tilapa Otomi, an Oto-Manguean language of Mexico. The goal of this paper is to show that the focus phrase in the clefts of Tilapa Otomi is the subject of the cleft construction, which is entirely based on the copular construction. This claim has a theoretical interest because the alignment of focus and subject has been tainted as problematic in certain approaches to clefts that want the subject to be the topic. The subject in clefts in Tilapa Otomi conveys contrastive focus, but clefts in Tilapa Otomi may also be used as thetic constructions to express broad focus, in which case it is the whole clause that is in focus.